The cover page is adapted from Construction in Blue, a painting completed in 1925 by Paul Gaulois. The cover and title pages feature the League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by The League of Moveable Type. www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
Short Fiction
Chapters (11)
- The Secret of Kralitz 0:00
- The Crystal Circe 19:57
- War-Gods of the Void 1:24:36
- Thunder in the Void 2:53:09
- Crypt-City of the Deathless One 4:03:57
- The Eyes of Thar 6:35:24
- What Hath Me? 7:23:41
- Dream’s End 8:55:23
- Don’t Look Now 9:28:25
- The Ego Machine 10:01:22
- Where the World Is Quiet 11:58:49
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Henry Kuttner was a prolific science fiction and horror author. His first story was published in 1936, and from there he wrote, under a set of pen names, a large number of short stories, novels, and comic strips, up until his early death in 1958. A lot of his work was penned in collaboration with his wife C. L. Moore, but she was only sometimes directly credited.
Kuttner was a friend of H. P. Lovecraft—he wrote a set of stories specifically set in the Cthulhu mythos—and while he was primarily a science fiction writer, there is a streak of Lovecraftian darkness running through the majority of his work. Even in his most optimistic tales, the characters often end up with more problems than they bargained for—or at least finish feeling no happier than before.
The short stories in this collection are those currently known to have passed into the U.S. public domain, arranged in order of publication.